The biggest draw back to the Flite Streak ARF is the mushy, substandard fuselage. Before you do anything, trace the kit fuselage on a large piece of paper or chip board so you will have a pattern available later if you need it. Then do the tube insert thing for the engine mounts, in addition to some aluminum pads under the engine to help spread the load. The landing gear is the usual 1/8" tube through the fuselage. Insert a piece of hard wood cross grain at this location and epoxy it in well. Drill that for a 3/16" tube and glue that in. Insert a 5/32" tube inside of that and you have a nice solid landing gear mount for 1/8" music wire. Or you could make a set of 3/32 or 1/8" aluminum sheet metal gear. Draw it out on a piece of paper full size to figure out the shape and lengths. Make a chip board version to check out the fit and mark where the bends go, then make the sheet metal pieces. Alll easy to do, just take your time and be accurate. After a few crashes the original fuselage may be toast and you can make a new one from your pattern and do most of the same things, but this one should last longer. And as mentioned, use a fair lead on the push rod on it. It's a good flying airplane with the balance as mentioned also. Mine is mostly bone stock, but I think I did bush the bell crank for the cable leadouts.
Good luck and have fiun,
Dan McEntee
Topic: Flight Streak ARF (Read 587 times)
